#Dede Ball

[lifewithdedee]

Soccer Player

[pokemonshelterstories]

hey um, I may need some help? so, I have a modified tennis ball launcher that can yeet my dreepy while I go and do some stuff. so she was launching her self into a net that catches her and uh...she decided to phase through my wall and I have no idea where or how far she has gotten or how many other houses she decided to phase through. her name is dede and has 24/7 zoomies.

this goes for everyone: if your pokemon gets lost and you don't find it within an hour or two, put in a call to the nearest pokemon center and ranger station. let them know your trainer ID and a description of the pokemon, and they'll keep an eye out. pretty much all pokeballs nowadays are equipped with a biometric scanning feature that automatically tags your pokemon to your trainer ID and uploads that info into the box system's data, so they'll know who it belongs to.

in the future, i recommend 1. making sure her pokeball is equipped with the automatic recall function and 2. only tossing her around outside. that way, if she goes too far, the pokeball will automatically bring her back, and walls won't get in the way of the recall feature.

[hidden-in-the-grass]

[Des is curled in a small ball in the corner of his bedroom. The door is shut from the outside so he can't get out. Shadows dance across his vision and he puts his head down with a small whimper as his breathing picks up. Whispers murmur sentences into his ears and tears well in his eyes.]

[And then everything is quiet. For a split moment he thinks everything is okay before theres a small hum and a familiar voice.]

"Hi Dede!"

[Des jumps back, eyes wide. His sister is sitting on the bed. She looks normal. There are daisies in her hair and she's in blue overall shorts and a white sweater. Theres a book in her lap and she has the same goofy grin and bruise on her arm as the night she was killed.]

"What...?" [He mutters to himself. He shakes his head.] "No- no you're...you're d-dead-"

"But i'm right here? Can't you see me?" [She tilts her head and one ear flops down like it always did when she didn't understand something.]

"N-No- no you're not. You aren't real." [He curls in on himself more.] "G-Go away- i don't want you here."

[A look of hurt flashes on her face and for a moment Des almost apologizes. Meiko goes quiet and pouts, leaning against the pillows on the bed. She crosses her arms over her chest and turns away from him. But she doesn't go away.]

[metalleafy]

pre-bfb shit only the most far back of bfdi fans can remember

BFDI Rumours (KatYJ's blog) before BFDIA + the theory that BFDIA would be called "Itz Da Fiercest Battle" (oddly prescient considering IDFB)

the blog changed its name to YoyleBling after BFDIA 1 was released

that one Tennis Ball account that commented on BFDI episodes

JnJ responding that TB had "ELER" in 5b (theorized to be Evil Leafy Evil Rampage)

BFDI 25 alternate ending by AnimationEpic (Teardrop talked)

BFDIA 4: I Don't Want To! (also by AnimationEpic with teardrop talking)

This is II shit but the "Fake Voters Are Fake" video on Adam's channel, where he said "COMPLETELY BLANK!"

BFDI annotations (Nonexisty being revealed in BFDI 12, the "we are aware" annotations for the messed-up scoreboard in BFDI 13)

whatever "Fight For Feline Funds" was

CAMPS. ALL THE CAMPS. BATTLE FOR SPACE PALACE WAS THE MOST PROMINENT WITH TROUSERS INSTEAD OF DAVID.

also the wave of "recolor camps" after BAGUETTE

I think there was a TDROTI Icy camp that was meant to play on "Total Drama REVENGE of the Island" too

most BFDI fans when season 1 was airing just being regular reality show fans (check out the last voter and the recommended characters for signs of this)

the Post DeDe controversy on the BFDI Wiki

NiroshaJojode (the BFDI in future account) I think the BFDI Couples video there had everytime we touch playing

Firey Speaker Box = Replacement Box Alpha and Flower Speaker Box = Replacement Box Omega was a thing

"booklatin" being considered because they both used syringes in bfdia??? pretty sure that was the rationale

whoever PencilDitz was/her thing about recommending characters related to pen-cil

early object show fanonpedia. there was a short fanfic called Mix and Match which had eratch in it and said needle was happy because she had two suitors. And a long one called Inanimate Insanity Island which didn't really have much to do with II, it had two OCs, Penny who was "the new Coiny" and Rose who i remember being like Alejandro in TDI. GB said her chance of resisting his charm was 0.000%. III was pretty much inspired by TDI, with confessionals and a huge focus on couples. It had flocky and fireafy in it and i was obsessed with it because of that.

[princess-of-the-corner]

que monstro te mordeu (what monster bit you)

First of all, this is the synopsis of the serie: Every time a child draws a monster, it will come to life in the Monster World of Monsters, spreading chaos wherever it goes.

So with that in mind, I can start debating what is basically a puppet show, because all the characters are puppets or are played by botargas/motley(?

It doesn't really have much lore because it only had one season (thankful it's 50 episodes) but it mostly deals with the antics of Monster kids meeting other Monsters.

Because the title is literal, if someone starts acting strange instead of being 'what Bug bit you?' is 'what monster bit you?' , Monsters affect each other and sometimes it is difficult to know how to get out of their effects without strong determination or a third party interfering.

Special note that all the Monsters were designed from children's drawings so they can be both silly and cute or something out of the mind of someone stoned-

Characters!

As secondary we have Gorgo (a garbage can that eats everything it sees), Luisa (a talking chair) and Dede (a ball of tangles with multiple eyes), of which, in the intro it is seen that Gorgo and Luisa were designed by children 6-8 years.

There is also Morgume (a tuber(?) and Dr. Z (a giant plant monster that has a ball with a brain and an eye and a book for a mouth), in the intro it is also seen that he was designed by an girl 8-11 years

They are, Monsters, their existence as such is not questioned because they obviously look like Monsters.

Until we go to our main character. Lali

In fact we see the creation of her in the first two minutes of the first chapter.

A child in the darkness of a room begins to draw, no distinguishing features of what he is doing are seen until he begins to color what is obviously a humanoid figure and once finished, he begins to cover the drawing with leaves, hiding it until only his closed eyes is all that is seen. To then change to the scene of a forest where eyes open in a mound of leaves.

(I am legally bound to share the escene-

https://youtu.be/0ysNka_8_yk

And the Intro

https://youtu.be/GKC5QtLJdZ0 )

It's. Fucked up. Cinema. Mostly because the music of that time is very captivating and mysterious. Literally the best thing about this show is the music, which although it's mostly happy, things like the background music and the intro become quite mysterious.

Anyway, Lali. She is human, at least her face is because her torso is covered in leaves and her arms and legs are red with large claws at the end.

In her awakening scene she is confused, she was just born and she doesn't know who she is or where she is, you can see her confusion during the scene.

While she is in that confused state she runs into Luisa, Dede and Gorgo (the latter actually eats her-)

After a bit of talk, the Monsters realize that she looks very human, so they decide to do a test which is to see if she sneezes, because Monsters don't. She for a moment she's cool, she doesn't, but in the end she does and everyone freaks out.

And in a matter of seconds the whole place finds out about the existence of a 'human' and they panic.

A bit dramatic because they are the Monsters but eh-

Dr. Z who was already watching them decided that 'ah, a human' and basically traps Lali and takes her to his house, all because he likes humanology and wants to get all the information out of her.

But that don't go long because the Dr's assistant, Morgume, frees her and feeds her, but there is only Monster food there and Dr. Z is scared because that can't be possible.

But in that he realizes the rest of her characteristics and that she is not quite human.

After a little chase with other Monsters, Lali lets out a roar that is definitely not human and everyone decides 'yeah, it's a Monster, it's all over guys, come home'. In the end Dr. Z ends up registering her in the world of Monsters as 'Half Monster, Half Human' while at the same time it is where she is named 'Lali'.

With that concludes the first chapter where something of the Monsters society was seen, it's not much, but it's good to start raving.

Firstly because, 1, Monsters are drawn by children, 2, all Monsters are common objects or things that scare children or are completely deformed, 3, a small child drew a human as a Monster.

Is this a criticism of humans being monsters? that we may look soft but are in fact Monstrous on the inside?

Who knows, they never specify it and the theme of Lali being half human is never touched on again-

But does she really raise a red flag over the life of the kid who drew her, is everything okay home kid? draws another Monster to know-

(Fun fact, in one chapter a superhero arrives by accident (human) and is mistaken for a monster until he says that he is a superhero from the land of superheroes, I don't remember much but I always had the theory that in fact he was a Monster, drawn by a child who was afraid of superheroes- ( I reemphasize the child from the beginning, did you draw this???!!!)

Keep in mind that although there are 50 chapters, more than 60% are lost and there are only 14 chapters that were dubbed out of Portuguese so basically this series is lost media, chapters 2 and 3 cannot be found.

But I remember Chapter 2 where even though I don't remember that Monster caused damage, I do remember the important part, which is that Dr. Z and Lali were somewhat uncomfortable with each other because, if Dr. Z took her in, both to give her a home and to study this strange species, but it is not really related. At least until the end where Lali addresses him as dad before going off to play with her friends. Your Honor , they are a family.

Sometimes a family is a giant plant with a brain and zero self-care, a biological nightmare between two different species, and a tuber too tired to act as the voice of reason every time.

There is not really a lore that is mentioned much, but with the little that is shown between chapters, it is interesting, it is known that there can be many Monsters of something, this is because there are two Bat Monsters that are very different from each other.

Adult Monsters have monster names and regular names, but child Monsters only have regular names.

The Monsters do not seem to have contacts with humans but they know what they are and are afraid of them (because they were gods, what created them? Because they were destroyers, what hunted them?)

There are many mysteries why this program never closed and it only makes you think about every thing, every implication can drive me crazy.

The program is a creation of the world waiting for someone to decide to do something, it is a children's program that decided to leave everything up in the air so as not to get a higher rating but leaving enough to the imagination.

It's my favorite show for everything it can be, for the music it brings and my fucking nightmare for the same reasons-

This sounds fascinating and a little fever dreamy but fun!

[70s80sandbeyond]

Lucille Ball and her mom Dede on the set of Her Husband's Affairs (1947)

[paldea-champ-n1cki]

dang! you have a lot of huge powerful pokemon! impressive! I guess my question is are the in their ball all the time? at home my mons all have like their place to sleep but with that many big guys idk how you'd do that

The larger ones like Dede, Klawf and Great Tusk stay in their balls unless I'm picnicking, because they're too big to be let out inside a building (except for the Medali Gym). When I'm at Naranja, Bapple has her own pokémon bed at the foot of my own bed! Sometimes Sir will lay with her, but he normally likes being in his pokéball. If I had Momma Bird out for the night, she'd try to steal my bed.

Thank you for the ask!

[msclaritea]

"The Royal Order of Jesters is a Masonic division of the Shriners and headed up by the Furstenberg family of Germany and the Colonna family of Rome."

"Lucille Désirée Ball was born on Sunday, August 6, 1911, at 69 Stewart Avenue in Jamestown, New York, the first child and only daughter of Henry Durrell "Had" Ball, a lineman for Bell Telephone, and Désirée Evelyn "DeDe" (née Hunt) Ball. Her family belonged to the Baptist church. Her ancestors were mostly English, but a few were Scottish, French, and Irish. Some were among the earliest settlers in the Thirteen Colonies, including Elder John Crandall of Westerly, Rhode Island, and Edmund Rice, an early emigrant from England to the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

Her father's Bell Telephone career frequently required the family to move during Lucy's early childhood. The first was to Anaconda, Montana, and later to Trenton, New Jersey. On February 28, 1915, while living in Wyandotte, Michigan, Lucy's father died of typhoid fever at age 27 when Lucy was only three. At that time, DeDe was pregnant with her second child, Fred Ball (1915–2007). Lucille recalled little from the day her father died, except a bird getting trapped in the house, which caused her lifelong ornithophobia.

Ball's mother returned to New York, where maternal grandparents helped raise Lucy and her brother Fred in Celoron, a summer resort village on Chautauqua Lake....Four years after Henry Ball's death, DeDe married Edward Peterson. While they looked for work in another city, Peterson's parents cared for Lucy and Fred. Ball's step-grandparents were a puritanical Swedish couple who banished all mirrors from the house except one over the bathroom sink. When Lucy was caught admiring herself in it, she was severely chastised for being vain. She later said that this period of time affected her deeply, and it lasted seven or eight years.

When Lucy was 12, her stepfather encouraged her to audition for his Shriners organization that needed entertainers for the chorus line of its next show. While Ball was onstage, she realized performing was a great way to gain praise..."

DEAR GOD. McDonald's, too!?

[ulkaralakbarova]

When Johnny is released from prison following a forgery charge, he quickly lands a job as a short-order cook at a New York diner. Following a brief fling with waitress Cora, Frankie develops an attraction for Cora’s friend and fellow waitress Frankie. While Frankie resists Johnny’s charms initially, she eventually relents when her best friend, Tim, persuades her to give Johnny a chance. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Johnny: Al Pacino Frankie: Michelle Pfeiffer Nick: Hector Elizondo Tim: Nathan Lane Nedda: Jane Morris Cora: Kate Nelligan Tino: Greg Lewis Luther: Al Fann Peter: Glenn Plummer Bobby: Sean O’Bryan Jorge: Fernando López Artemis: Ele Keats Mr. DeLeon: Phil Leeds Frankie’s Mother: K Callan Christine the Hooker: Shannon Wilcox Mr. Rosen: Harvey Miller Lester: Tim Hopper Haircombing Neighbor: Robert Ball Bowling Twin: Terri Sigrist Bowling Twin: Lori Sigrist Peter’s Roommate: Al Sapienza Flower Mart Vendor: Lorna Thayer Officer Lee: Calvin Jung Frankie’s Cousin: Dedee Pfeiffer Film Crew: Costume Design: Rosanna Norton Producer: Garry Marshall Production Design: Albert Brenner Casting: Lynn Stalmaster Original Music Composer: Marvin Hamlisch Editor: Battle Davis Director of Photography: Dante Spinotti Art Direction: Carol Winstead Wood Set Decoration: Kathe Klopp Theatre Play: Terrence McNally Editor: Jacqueline Cambas Movie Reviews:

[daviddshiki]

The Adventures of David Dashiki-Stories of an African American Hero...Year of the Black Man-2024

The first and greatest Black orator of the twentieth century was not, as a young printer in Jamaica, a natural speaker: this young, private, intense activist taught himself through trial and humiliation until he learned to speak with fiery immediacy to audiences of any size." The excellence and power of Garvey's oratory was the single most uncontroversial of his attributes, Garvey's enemies were as dazzled by his speeches as his admirers. The fluency of his speeches lay in the fact that he had something to say, something which touched so deeply that it constituted an outpouring from the heart and found response in his hearers." (Historian's reflection on the impact of the oratory of Marcus Garvey).

I was raised in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York-(Daddy Dashiki speaks). If you have never heard of it, it is the sports capitol of the universe. We played everything with ball in it...Punch Ball, Stick Ball, Baseball, Softball, Stoop Ball, Box Ball, Dodge Ball, Football and when Bill Ware's brother discovered a new kind of ball at his local high school, we played Soccer in the streets. Injury comes with sports part and parcel. The mash unit for me was the kitchen table and the doctor was DeDe Dashiki, my mother.

With so many scrapes and bruises, I suffered battle fatigue. One day, I asked Mama De De if there was not another remedy besides IODINE . It was as painful as Hell. I explained to her. Well, not in that language. She stared me down. " Would you prefer to do this yourself? You need to act like the man you profess to be. All puffed up but only air inside. Of course, it hurts. That is what tells me it's working. " To this day, I remember those words. " There are times when we have to suffer and sacrifice to achieve a cure. That pain shows us that we are moving toward our goal. For what we want to accomplish in this Year of the Black Man 2024..will require a little sting. Our forefathers understood that. They endured that pinch in spite of the fact that there was no safety or relief in sight. What we overlook is that our opposition wants us to focus on the imminent pain and not the goal. Since we are what we think about most of the time, focusing on the impending discomfort will make the racist living conditions of being Black in America more palatable in comparison to the prick. De De was right as always. There were greater sacrifices made. Dr. Martin Luther King, Medgar Evers, Herbert Lee, Roman Ducksworth, Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Caroline Robertson, Cynthia Wesley, Louis Allen, Henry Hezekiah Dee, Charles Eddie Moore, Oneal Moore...Those were the fighters who did not run from conflict. They stood fearlessly. The sting did not threaten them. Therefore , we have a responsibility, a mandate to be unafraid, to be steadfast in this struggle. In this way, we honor our dead.

We must act for the freedom promised. We must act because we are in a war against our existence but has never been declared . We must act for so many lives have been lost. We have suffered but America has even more so. With all of the killings, lynchings, segregation, discrimination, prejudice, racism , bias, bigotry, injustice, inequity and hatred, what has America gained? What it has lost is the full and complete contribution of an erudite, scholarly, creative, dynamic, dignified, loyal and industrious segment of its citizenry, Badass Black Folks. We are not where we should be or could be since all of us are not free.

Black Men, we must respond because our country needs us to keep the vision of America ever present in the mind and heart of its people. Why should we be the victims of a mentally deficient few? Why do we suffer the indignities and insults of the injured illiterates? Why should we have to fight for rights granted every other ethnic group in the country save us? . No! We stand up and make our desires, rights and wishes known. We prepare ourselves and especially our children for a life that white people in America enjoy. We fall no longer for the strategies inflicted upon us daily. There is nothing wrong with us except that you refuse to release us from the bonds and chains of racism. We have long ago paid our dues. In this moment, we want to collect on the debt you owe us. We have worked for it. We have earned it. We deserve it and we are willing to endure the IODIE to attain it.

This is what we know and are ready to act on. America has not made any commitment about securing for African Americans all the rights guaranteed all of its white citizens,

There has been a war declared on Black citizens by white citizens to prevent them from acquiring said rights. This is evident in every state in the union. There is a uniformity of negative treatment toward Blacks in America

The effort to maintain a state of second -class citizenship for Black Americans is fostered through the school system.

Black schools are providing an inferior product of education for its Black children.

Whereas white education is designed to prepare white children for success in the world with the complete and full cooperation of the system , parents, and political power brokers.

Black children who demonstrate high academic achievement are in the minority in Black schools and considered an anomaly. The rate of failure far exceeds high scholarship. The schools have inferior outcomes and more children are referred to special education than to specialized high schools. It is a system designed toward genocide rather than academic freedom.

There is no concern that these schools have been failing Black children for decades. If they were NON -profit enterprises, they would go under, have to close shop. These institutions of learning in a sentence can be described as follows, " Throw them into special education and close the door."

Black Men , We have to organize and act. Forget the IODINE. ACT!!!!!

[alboo]

More wisdom on elite speed at receiver.

When we had elite speed at receiver we struck fear in our opponents. Granted the wideouts were surrounded by Heisman winners and a Joe Moore winner of the best offensive line in the country. (Notice all were transfers, two from Juco)

Jeff Badet, a transfer from Kentucky with 4.28 speed. Was our big play man early in 2017, but then got hurt. After that only good for one play for per game. Fortunately, Marquise Brown then came into his own after that.

Dede Westbrook from Blinn Jr. College. In 2016 Biletknikopff winner as country's best receiver, and 4th in Heisman voting.

Returning punts and kick offs was a force of nature. Would catch the ball takeoff and it was like the Red Sea parting as he ran through a huge hole in the coverage. In the stands I couldn't believe it and say to myself, "(expletive) He may go!". I figured out years later the reason the hole was so big and defenders so scattered as he he broke into the open field he was so fast the coverage did not have time to converge like they do on a mortal return man.

Marquise Brown caught fire as speedster and big play man.in 2017. Fortunately for Sooner Nation, he emerged after speedster Jeff Badet was injured. Junior Colleges in California do not give athletic scholarships so he supported himself working at Six Flags Magic Mountain. Set an Oklahoma record for most receiving yards in a single game with 265 against Oklahoma State in 2018.

Now the world has changed on getting players from other schools. Any player can switch schools each year via the transfer portal so the availability of transfers is immense. Because of this most schools are getting players from Division 1 programs as they are somewhat known entities; finding gems in the junior colleges might be an opportunity being overlooked.

[oneinathousand]

I’m re-reading a crappy Super Smash Brothers fanfic I wrote way back when I was 11 and I thought I’d share some of my favorite out-of-context lines from it, but I’ll say that it’s basically about Mario angsting over Luigi’s death from a battle with a bunch of Nintendo villains, except - spoiler alert - Luigi didn’t die but instead got some darkness-based superpowers and may or may not have become evil. It was basically a horrible mashup of SSB, Super Paper Mario, and Kingdom Hearts. 

Below are the lines as originally written, spelling/grammar/paragraph structure mistakes and all:

I turned around and saw the balls dissapeared and a mysterious figure wearing a black coat stood not far from me. I think he was excactly the same size as Luigi. "Who-who are you?!" I asked. He-or she, I'll call it ?- didn't answer. (I thought I was being so subtle with that foreshadowing...)

Dreamland... I knew I could find King DeDe here unless he knew I was coming and ran off. I saw Kirby nearby, I wondered if he knew where King WeWe is. Kirby groaned when he saw me. "Whatever Kirby, is King WeWe still around?" I asked. "Ha! Ha! WeWe! I know you mean King DeDe. I was going to interagatte him now. I'll take you there." Kirby volunteered. (I consistently spelled King Dedede’s name as DeDe the entire time)

To our suprise, ? slowly rose from the ground! "Looks like you've figured me out, but can you figure out who I am?" ? asked.

He (Layton) placed me into it, strapped my arms onto the armrests and strapped by feet to the ground. I was stuck! "Mama Mia! I don't like it already! Get me outta here!" I whined. "Quiet!" Layton instructed. Then he slapped me real hard saying, "Pull yourself together man!" He slapped me constantly. I think he was trying to teach me to get a grip on reality. But it hurt so much I thought I died and went to you know where. (My friend in school at the time was a big Professor Layton fan, so I put him in my fic as a tribute, but I didn’t bother doing much research, so Professor Layton in this story is kind of a maniac)

"I know who you are too! You're none other then... Robert DeNiro!" Layton gasped, dramatically pointing at him. "Wait, What?" ? asked even more shocked. "I'm such a huge fan of your movies!" I scueeled. "If I'm Robert DeNiro then how can I create a black hole and vanish in thin air?" DeNiro asked. "I know! You've been taking magic classes for you're next role!" Layton suggested. "I thought you are a proffesor with a masters degree." DeNiro insulted. "So you're not Robert DeNiro?" I asked blushing. "No I'm not you ding dong! Now if I were you I'd run like a bunch of cowards. I have buisness, Ciao!" He called out while vanishing.

"I am your enemy!" Luigi announced to Crazy. "Fine! You're nothing but a weakling. I'll have you kissing my thumb in less then a minute!" Crazy taunted.

Not far from us there was a humongous castle that nearly blended in with the scenery. "I can tell this is Crazy's castle." Sonic said. "Really? How can you tell? I asked. "Because he wrote his name on that tower over there." Sonic explained.

We couldn't hear Crazy Hand breathing, and he wasn't moving either. "Come on Crazy, get uq so we can finish this." Link coaxed. No answer. I was starting to worry. "You taking a nap?" Mr. Game and Watch asked. Still nothing. "Crazy?" Snake asked. "Do you think?" Peach asked. Then Crazy slowly disintergrated untill he was just a pile of ashes. He killed himself from laughter. (Some parts of this fic were meant to be humorous, but this one was meant to be taken seriously)

"Alright, now for Puzzle 002: What is my niece's name?" Crazy asked. Neice? Crazy and Master don't have any relitaves. "Hey! You're just pretending!" Peach pointed out. "Oh, really? You've got 1 minute." Crazy cackled. "The Sparkly Mittin!" R.O.B. spat out. "Correct!" Crazy gasped. Sucker. As we were walking I asked R.O.B, "How did you know Crazy had a neice?" "She and I were classmates in my freshman year." R.O.B. explained.

By no means do I claim that I managed to write an amazingly so-bad-it’s-good fanfiction on par with My Immortal and My Inner Life, especially since I rushed through writing it so much back then that it isn’t very long at all, but it does give a glimpse into the mind of an eleven-year-old with a strange sense of humor. 

If you’d like to read it in full, though, you can find it here. 

[papermoonloveslucy]

CURTAIN UP!

Lucy On Stage ~ Act 4

Lucille Ball’s dream was to be on Broadway. She achieved that goal in 1960, but along the way she found herself on various other stages.  Here’s a look at Lucille Ball, stage actress. 

In school, Lucille’s mother Dede encouraged her daughter to be active in the drama club. Lucille performed and directed with the group, staging a production of Charley’s Aunt by Brandon Thomas, which opened on Broadway in 1893.  In the above photo, Lucille Ball is seated in the front row, second from the left. Her teacher was named Lillian Appleby. Lucille later honored her by naming a character on “I Love Lucy” after her. 

The Celoron, New York, grammar school Lucille attended (above) has long since been razed. But a formative moment in Lucille Ball’s life occurred on this site when her stepfather, Ed Peterson, brought her to see a performance by the renowned monologist Julius Tannen in the school auditorium. As Lucy remembered, “I don’t think a stage career ever occurred to me until that night.”  Lucille left school before graduating, going to New York City to attend drama school. The experiment was short-lived and Lucille returned home. 

In 1929, 18-year-old Lucille Ball was cast in a production of Within the Law by Bayard Veillier  – her first stage performance outside of school. Lucille played the supporting role of Agatha at Jamestown’s Shea Theatre. In 1991, the theater was formally renamed The Lucille Ball Little Theatre in a ceremony with Ball’s family in attendance.

Back in Manhattan, Lucille was cast (but quickly fired) from the chorus of two road shows of Broadway productions. Rio Rita was a New York hit produced by Flo Ziegfeld. 

In a 1963 epsiode of “The Lucy Show” Lucy Carmichael says that Thelma Green (Carole Cook) once appeared in the third road company of Rio Rita. The writers used Ball’s real-life history but attributed it to Thelma. 

She was also in the road company of The Stepping Stones, a musical fantasy about Raggedy Ann and Andy starring Fred and Dorothy Stone. Again, Lucille was quickly let go. 

In Hollywood, Lucille Ball was coached by Lela Rogers, Ginger’s mother, on the RKO lot. At the RKO Little Theatre (later the Desilu Workshop Playhouse) Lucille appeared in several plays. In 1936 she was in Fly Away Home, a play that had appeared on Broadway the year before starring Montgomery Clift and Sheldon Leonard. Agents, Managers, and members of the public could attend for twenty five cents.

Also in 1936, she appeared in Breakfast With Vanora by Fred Ballard, which received good notices in the press. Lucille played the leading role and Barbara Pepper was in the ensemble. Above, Lela instructs John Shelton how to hold a gun while Lucy looks on.  

In 1937, Lucille took a break from Hollywood to make (what she hoped) would be her Broadway debut in Hey Diddle Diddle, a play by Bartlett Cormack starring Conway Tearle. The play premiered at McCarter Theatre in Princeton, New Jersey, with a destination of the Vanderbilt Theatre on Broadway. In its second out-of-town stop in Washington DC, Tearle become gravely ill. That, combined with the fact that producers felt the script needed revisions, caused the production to be halted.  Lucille returned to Hollywood. In 1953, Tearle’s name was mentioned on “I Love Lucy.” He had died in 1938. 

In mid-1947, now married and a successful film star, Lucille Ball again began to think about her stage aspirations and left Hollywood for the boards. She toured in a tour of Dream Girl, a fantasy play by Elmer Rice that had played Broadway in 1945. 

The play’s fantasy sequences seemed tailor-made for Ball’s style and comic wit. In a way, Georgina was a prelude to the “Lucy” character on TV, who is dreaming her way out of her suburban life - and sometimes succeeding.

The play co-starred Scott McKay as the imaginative writer. McKay played the role of Wilbur in the 1958 pilot for TV’s “Mr. Ed” but was replaced on the series by Alan Young.

"I have seen other productions of this play, but the only actress whose performance really delighted me was Lucille Ball. She lacked… tender wistfulness, but her vivid personality and expert timing kept the play bright and alive." ~ Edgar Rice, Playwright

The tour was produced by Herbert Kenwirth who later directed 14 episodes of “Here’s Lucy.”  It featured Barbara Morrison, Alan Hewitt, and Hayden Rorke, who would all later appear on Lucy sitcoms. 

In January 1948, Lucille got the opportunity to recreate the role in Los Angeles, but fell ill with a virus shortly after it opened and the show closed prematurely. It wasn’t long before Lucille was back in front of a live audience, but this time on radio, as the star of the sitcom “My Favorite Husband,” which led to her meteoric success on “I Love Lucy.”  

After the series came to an end in early 1960, Lucille again revived hopes of acting on Broadway. Wildcat, a new musical about by Richard Nash with songs by Cy Coleman was looking for a star. Nash had envisioned the main character of as a woman in her late 20s, and was forced to rewrite the role when 49 yearl-old Lucille Ball expressed interest not only in playing it but financing the project as well. Lucille personally chose her co-stars Keith Andes as her love interest and Pauls Stewart as her sister. Future sitcom star Valerie Harper was in the chorus (above right). 

Lucille played Wildcat ‘Wildy’ Jackson, who dreams of striking oil in 1912 Centavo City, California. The score included what would become her signature tune: “Hey, Look Me Over”.  

The Philadelphia tryout opened on October 29, 1960 to a glowing review from Variety, but local critics were less enthusiastic. The scheduled Broadway opening had to be postponed when trucks hauling the sets and costumes to New York were stranded on the New Jersey Turnpike by a major blizzard. After two previews, the show opened on December 16 at the Alvin Theatre (now the Neil Simon).

Ball quickly realized audiences had come expecting to see her Lucy Ricardo persona and began ad-libbing to bring her characterization closer to that of the zany housewife she had portrayed on television. But the rigors of singing and dancing in a Broadway musical eight times a week caught up with Ball. She got illl and demands for refunds ran high, the producers planned to close the show for a week to allow her to recover. The closure came sooner than planned when Ball, suffering from a virus and chronic fatigue, departed for Florida. She returned two weeks later, but collapsed on stage. It was decided the show would close for nine weeks at the end of May and reopen once its star had fully recovered but when the musicians' union insisted on members of the orchestra being paid during the shutdowns. Not even Lucille’s deep pockets could afford the cost, and the show closed permanently on June 3, 1961.  

Lucille returned to Hollywood, her dream realized, even if it was short-lived. Thereafter, she would incorporate her love for theatre into her television and film performances, starring in many ‘mini-musicals’ on “The Lucy Show” and “Here’s Lucy” and - in 1974 - tackling the full-scale Broadway musical Mame on film. 

CURTAIN DOWN on ACT 4

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The model fabulous side characters of "sCF"

The fabulous gays and the equally stunning women who preferred sausage to fish sat in a private table on a sunlit patio in the valley drinking their second round of mojitos gabbing as friends did. All surface fluff and holding out their phones for emphasis on any and all stories told. If you didn't know you would assume it was faux high school reunion from St. Vladimir from that one Vampire show. Most were pale as snow even under the California sun and its unrelenting heat. Instead they were all past 30 and talking shit about their plastic surgeon and his mysterious boyfriend. 

The claws had come out about his weird permanent five o'clock shadow, perfect brown hair that can always be wild and spikey but appeared to have no product. Or the lack of a cock and balls but he wasn't transgender. There were many plot holes to the subject of Sven Petrov and the 6 serial killers wanted answers. None of their plastic surgeon, with the best pills for cheap cared to share. Hence them meeting like this and ofcourse as if summoned by their circle of bitchiness Sven appeared and not alone.

"Shit! be casual," Honey Vanderbilt said in a raspy voice as she tried to keep her THC vapor from escaping which led to her chocking while looking like a skinny version of Big Bird thanks to her loud yellow faux feather sweater which shook with each cough. A decade of killing had not taught the rest how to be casual and everyone swiveled to look at the small man in a white peasant shirt and khaki shorts showing the whitest and hairiest legs Honey had ever seen. 

What had left them all too stunned to speak was the voluptuous dark skinned woman arm and arm with the man walking towards a table past theirs. He had never seen them and wondered why they were staring but was too happy to have his elder sister out with him to notice too much. 

"Is he gay or straight," Victor Tide asked as he downed his drink and cocked an eyebrow at Honey who looked flummoxed by the question. 

"Is she aware he's missing parts!?!" Fredrick Quinn asked chuckling 

"That woman survived a near fatal blow to the head," DeDe Bloom said while looking at her phone.

"How the hell do you know?!" Henry Schumacher asked, confused.

"Tried to kill her," DeDe said disappointment in her tone.

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Reblogging to add because poll is over.

Bapple sniffs the mirror, then tries to eat it because she likes eating things.

Sir does circles around it trying to find the "other Orthworm".

Momma Bird checks her feathers in it.

Klawf and Great Tusk didn't even see the mirror. They were to busy playing with a ball.

Dede just.... aqua tail'd the mirror into Area 0. I still haven't found it.

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My favorite part about this dnd campaign is that my friends know y character better than I do

If they make any headcanons about Thava I’m like “yes that’s good I like it it’s canon” but as soon as they ask me about her all I can think of is “Gay Bard loves Tieflings”